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Academic Transcription Services

Weloty provides academic transcription services to Graduate and PhD students, professors and researchers in the global academic community. We transcribe a broad range of interesting and compelling content for dissertation and thesis research fulfillment. Our qualitative research transcription services include high-quality transcription of academic interviews, focus group discussions, lectures and seminars. Our staff, comprised entirely of university graduates, are uniquely trained to handle diverse academic and qualitative research transcription projects.

At weloty, we provide transcription services for files in any digital audio format. We sign confidentiality agreements and take steps to ensure your data is secured. We will be guided by your instructions regarding specialist styles that adhere to your individual institution’s guidelines and we will return the audio content to you as well-written, accurate and high-quality MS Word, or PDF documents with attention given to any formatting and style specifications.

Are you planning to use Nvivo or Atlas ti software for analysis? Upon request, we’ll format your research transcripts into a NVivo or Atlas.ti import format so that you can take full advantage of these software’s analysis capabilities. Send us the files to be transcribed in any digital audio format and we will return the transcribed documents to you within your nominated turnaround time and to your exact specifications.

We categorize audio quality into 2 buckets, good or bad. Good quality audio has little or no background noise, is clearly audible (not too low or too high), and has no static (very common with over the phone interviews). Here’s a great post on how to record good quality audio.

Yes, we’re a registered vendor with Rutgers, University of Texas, Boston College… and many other universities. And we’re always happy to register as a vendor with your university and get a purchase order (PO) approved.

When we transcribe everything that a person says and include the pauses, fillers, repeats, stutters, stammers, throat clearing, coughing, laughter, and details of interruptions, that’s called verbatim transcription. Due to its detailed nature, the transcript is great for research projects that aim to investigate HOW something is said as well as WHAT’s being said. There is an additional $0.25 per minute charge for verbatim transcription.

When we transcribe recorded speech into text while leaving out any phrases or words considered redundant, such as repeated words, filler expressions (er, um) or thought pauses (yeah, you know) and editing slang words (gonna to going to), this is intelligent verbatim transcription style of transcription. The main purpose of an intelligent verbatim transcription is to provide a more readable transcript while staying true to the voice and intended meaning of the participants. The resultant transcript is great for research projects that aim to investigate WHAT’s being said and not particularly interested in how it was said. Our blog has more information…